BK,
Just realize also that these are electronics, and sometimes problems can and do arise. It is how these problems are taken care of that makes the difference. BTW, I had an S5000 go down on me Friday. It sucked in the CD, then the whole unit shut down, and powered off except the CD kept spinning. I played the rest of the night off of my DCD-210. I always keep a backup player with me in case of a problem. Now I have 3 other S5000's and none have ever had a failure, that one just happens to have an issue (BTW it's only 3 months old). And on another note my CDI-500's are a year old and neither unit has given me 1 problem. So let Skilz get it taken care of and refrain from selling the set right now, I think you will be very happy.